NEW ENGLAND LITERARY NEWS
A book about mushrooms, new poetry pondering what we humans need, and a publishing experiment that blends book-buying and philanthropy
By Nina MacLaughlin Globe Correspondent,Updated March 4, 2021, 1:46 p.m.
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Bringing new meaning to digging mushrooms
Doug Bierendâs lively, engaging, and enlightening new book, âIn Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushroomsâ (Chelsea Green) initiates readers into the rich world of the mushroom and its multiple powerful uses: as food, medicine, assistors in environmental remediation, a model to how to exist in a more symbiotic and reciprocal way. He establishes what fungi are, in nature and culture, then guides us in to the âmycelium undergroundâ of enthusiasts, farmers, and foragers looking to broaden mushroomsâ uses and appeal. And all the while the book is undergirded by the question of how looking at mushrooms â or ot
Evan I. Schwartz: The Rock n Roll of Non-Profit Publishing
Author Evan I. Schwartz explains how he went from writing nonfiction to fiction and how he came to discover his non-profit publisher.
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Dec 15, 2020
Evan I. Schwartz started out reviewing rock concerts for his high school newspaper on Long Island. He is the author of five non-fiction books, including the acclaimed historical narratives
Finding Oz (Houghton Mifflin) and
The Last Lone Inventor (HarperCollins), named by Amazon Books as one of the “100 Biographies and Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime.” He lives in New England.
Revolver is his first novel.
In this post, Schwartz explains how he went from writing nonfiction to fiction, how he came to find his non-profit publisher, and more!